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A Sunlit Path through a Wood, 1750/59. Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper.
Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper · 15.8 × 19.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Sunlit Path through a Wood
- Artist
- Thomas Gainsborough English, 1727-1788
- Date
- 1750/59
- Medium
- Graphite, with brush and gray wash, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, edge mounted onto grayish-cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 15.8 × 19.1 cm (6 1/4 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1727–1788
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.